It is my hope that the these definitions will help to standardize the terminology so we can clearly discuss the rare precessional alignment that culminates in era-2012.

One of our disks was corrupted.

MOVEMENT
< / > : accelerate backwards /forwards

Both my ATI Radian 5830's work.
Just depends on what type of Motherboard one has.

I think that card [ATI 5850] should support doubles. Nearly all of the 5xxx series do, except randomly a couple don't.
-- Matt

"It seems you try to display a lot of points (stars). I guess many of them will be very close (at lest on the screen). Would it be possible to reduce the data to display by some kind of "abstraction" ? Maybe you can select only some representatives of the whole star dataset, based on distances to each other. Another idea would be to "merge" several stars together, and replace them by one star with an "averaged" position and brightness. What do you think?"
- Frankm

Absolutely! I have been kicking this idea around since the start of the project, but there are a few issues. The stars could be cut up into sections and averaged by using an inverse tree. This is similar to what is done when rendering textures at further distances. This tends to create a flickering effect during the transition that I considered undesirable for the screensaver. It could be overcome completely by waiting until stars were less than an 8th of a pixel apart to use their average. This did not seem necessary for the screensaver as it is now, but this mehthod would be critical for a larger-scale application using millions of stars and a larger range of distances.
- Shane Reilly